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Business

Burglars pose as construction workers to steal safe from California home

Police in a city near San Francisco are on the hunt for a group of men they say posed as construction workers in order to burglarize a home. Around 11:15 a.m. Monday, one of the suspects knocked on the door of an apartment building in Burlingame and told the resident that he needed to come […]

January 9, 2014

Roadbuilding

Potholes cost drivers more than $700 annually in five cities with roughest roads

In the five cities with the roughest roads, potholes and other poor road conditions cost drivers more than $700 each year, our sister site, Aggregates Manager, reports. The information comes from The Road Information Program’s (TRIP) annual report, “Bumpy Roads Ahead: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother.” The report notes the […]

November 18, 2013

Business

San Francisco subway construction causes a rat invasion

It’s not uncommon for a city to receive complaints about construction. Despite the knowledge that improvements are being made to infrastructure or a new building is join up, traffic backups and noise due to construction can quickly become annoyances after even a short period of time. But for San Francisco residents, it’s the rats. According […]

November 17, 2013

Construction Equipment

Demolition of old Bay Bridge will be a delicate exercise

Calling the old Bay Bridge “the world’s largest armed bow and arrow,” Caltrans bridge engineer Brian Maroney told the Contra Costa Times that bringing down the span will be a bit riskier than the most demolition projects. Built in 1936, the Bay Bridge brought millions upon millions of passengers between Oakland and San Francisco before it […]

November 14, 2013

Roadbuilding

Caltrans wins Pavement Pioneer Award for Perpetual Pavement projects

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has received a national Pavement Pioneer Award for the long-life asphalt pavement projects recently constructed on Interstate 5 in Northern California. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty received the award on behalf of the agency at the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA) Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference last week in Sacramento. Mike […]

October 31, 2013

Safety

Construction of new 49ers stadium has claimed the lives of 2 workers

Since breaking ground in April of 2012, construction on the new home of the San Francisco 49ers has claimed the lives of two workers, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. The $1.2 billion stadium, named Levi’s Stadium, is slated to open in time for the 2014 NFL season. The first worker, 63-year-old […]

October 15, 2013

Construction Equipment

Beautiful Bay Bridge time-lapse compresses 42k hours of construction into 4 mintues

Recently, construction was completed on the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The $6.4 billion bridge replaced a structure damaged in a 1989 earthquake and last week opened to traffic. Since then, EarthCam has released its time-lapse footage of all 42,000 hours of construction that took place on the bridge. The footage is […]

September 9, 2013

Roadbuilding

Oakland Bay Bridge: Open Again—and Finally Done!

The main thoroughfare to get across the bay from San Francisco to Oakland, California, had been completely closed since Wednesday, August 28, so the final touches could be finished on the new 2.2-mile span from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The bridge, which was damaged in the 1989 Loma […]

September 5, 2013

Roadbuilding

Top 5 Cities for Electric Cars

Some of the cities on this list are probably obvious, but I was surprised about a few of the cities on this “Top 5” list from Clean Technica. Here are the five cities where you’re most likely to see someone charging up their car: Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California New York City Seattle, Washington […]

August 26, 2013

Roadbuilding

NRMCA hosts 2013 Concrete Sustainability Conference

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), along with several other sponsors, is hosting the eighth annual International Concrete Sustainability Conference (ICSC) May 6-8 in San Francisco, California. The conference is aimed at educating researchers, academics, students, engineers, architects, contractors, public works officials, material suppliers and concrete industry professionals on topics like life cycle assessment, […]

April 22, 2013

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Poll: Who will win Super Bowl 47?

We’ve got a great matchup set for Super Bowl XLVII. Will young gun QB Colin Kaepernick win a ring in his first season as a starter? Or will future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis’s final season have a storybook ending? Vote below.

January 30, 2013

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East span of the Bay Bridge is born

Over the past three-and-a-half years, workers have been busy constructing the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The project has cost more than $6 billion already and was necessary after a part of this part of the bridge collapsed in 1989 after an earthquake. This new span of the bridge has been […]

January 9, 2013